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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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Species
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Jacquemontia gracillima (Choisy) Hall. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Jahrb. (Syst.) 16: 541. 1893.
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Synonym
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Aniseia gracillima Choisy in DC., Prodr. 9: 430. 1845. SYNTYPE: Brazil, Martius (not seen).
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Description
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Vines; stems herbaceous, pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 cm long, basally acute, apically acute or lanceolate, glabrescent. Flowers in axillary racemose clusters, 2-3-flowered, pubescent; sepals ovate-cordate to suborbicular, 3-6 mm long and 3-6 mm wide, ciliate; corollas white, 5-10 mm long, interplicae glabrous; stamens unequal, the filaments basally pubescent; ovary conic-globose, glabrous. Fruits capsular, globose, enclosed within the sepals, 3-6 mm in diameter, glabrous, light brown; seeds light brown to red- brown, 2-4 mm long, spinulose and glabrous.
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Habit
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Vines
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Note
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This species flowers in December.
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Distribution
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occurs in Brazil and Panama.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Aguadulce, Pittier 4842 (F).
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